Summary

In this chapter, we introduced four commonly used tools in this chapter that can help you improve your Terraform workflow. We started with VSCode Terraform extension, which provides several intelligent capabilities to develop Terraform code more efficiently. We then showed two static code analysis tools. tflint helps you to catch specific errors before running Terraform, and it helps you to make your code more consistent. Checkov improves security by ensuring your Terraform conforms to a set of predefined and custom security policies. Lastly, Terragrunt can improve your efficiency by removing repetitive tasks.

These four tools only scratch the surface of the Terraform ecosystem. There are many more tools available, and more are developed every day. In our next and final chapter, we will see how to integrate Terraform into several Google Cloud services.